新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/05/28

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Zhaoying

Coming up：

--US delegation¹ travels to North Korea for potential summit preparation

--Profits for China's major industrial firms surged 21.9 percent year-on-year in April

--Italian PM-designate has given up his bid to form a government

For more on this, CRI's Zhaoying earlier spoke² to victor Gao, chairman of China Energy Security Institute; Vice³ president of Center for China and Globalization;Bob Jones, European specialist； Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice, Guanghua School of Management, and Winston Wang, Managing Director of Shipston Group Limited, speaking with Zhao Yang；Matias Javier Mana, the national director of projects with international bilateral⁴ financing.

Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice, Guanghua School of Management, and Winston Wang, Managing Director of Shipston Group Limited, speaking with Zhao Yang.

1 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。